technical component

technical component

Managed care Those charges made for the facility component of billing and claims for health care services
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tech·ni·cal com·po·nent

(tek'ni-kăl kŏm-pō'nĕnt)
In health care informatics, that portion of a procedure undertaken by a technician, rather than by a physician.
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The agreement stipulates improvement of the mechanism of supply of military products, provision of armed forces, military formations and special services with highly effective weapons systems, as well as formation of a technical component of the collective security system.
The agreement on the development of military-technical cooperation is aimed at improving the mechanism for the supply of military products in the interests of the national armed forces of the countries, providing the Armed Forces, military formations and special services with highly effective prospective weapon systems, and forming the technical component of the collective security system.
Typically, physician offices are not prepared to establish a histology/cytology lab in-house to facilitate the generation of the technical component. However, with a relatively small investment, the physician can and will be prepared to process the professional component and reap the revenue generated from it.
The four core components of the California program are: (1) A challenging academic component; (2) A demanding technical component; (3) A work-based learning component; and (4) Supplemental services.
TDC, a technical component distributor specialising in embedded components for wireless applications such as GSM, GPRS, GPS, Bluetooth, WiFi and ZigBee, today (24 November) announced the availability of new serial to WLAN server modules.
The technical component involves such techniques as analyzing file code as byte sequences, emulating program code, virtualization, monitoring system events and searching for system anomalies.
Although you are acting as your own sonographer for your scans, this still represents the technical component of a scan, which is reimbursed when reporting the unmodified code for the service.
A histotechnologist, frequently hired by the pod organizer, performs the technical component of the laboratory service, and a pathologist, who is also recruited by the pod organizer, performs the professional component and supervises the histotech.
It is not uncommon for students to develop technique through repertoire study, with each composition providing the impetus for integrating a new technical component into one's physical and tonal palette.
All of the analyses focused on issues with a considerable scientific or technical component. Moreover, they often laid the groundwork for legislation.
The limitation of the system is that it is for physician services only and does not include the technical component.

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